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General Review:
Co-ordination.
There is complete co-ordination between the work of
the School Medical Service and that of the Infant and
Child Welfare Department. To secure this co-ordination
the School Clinic and the Welfare Centre have
been arranged in the same building where the whole
of the work is carried on by the respective staffs. This
arrangement facilitates information regarding children
under school age being conveyed by the School Nurses
to the Health Visitors and information regarding school
children being conveyed from the Health Visitors to
the School Nurses ; it also facilitates the transference
to the School Medical Service of medical history cards
of children after they reach the age of five. The treatment
of minor ailments of children under school age
at the School Clinic also tends towards intimate cooperation
between the two departments.
Debilitated and crippled children under school age
are treated at the King Edward Memorial Hospital
under the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, every
effort being made to deal with such children as early
as possible in their lives and before they proceed to
school. The treatment or supervision of such children
is automatically transferred to the School Medical
Service when the child passes into an elementary school.
The School Medical Service in Relation to Public
School Hygiene.
There are twelve public elementary schools under
the control of the Local Education Authority. Six
of these are of modern construction, dating from 1905
to 1911, five are old with recent adaptations while one
is a temporary school. In the first group the general